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Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology archive
Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology table of contents

San Diego, California, United States

Pages: 119 - 128

Year of Publication: 2000

ISBN:1-58113-212-3

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Shumin Zhai	IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA
Michael Hunter	IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA
Barton A. Smith	IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA

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SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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